About Ideas on Fire

We help interdisciplinary scholars publish brilliant, field-defining work
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Your ideas cross boundaries—your editorial team should too

Interdisciplinary scholars often face publishing systems and tenure norms that weren’t built for their kind of work.

Led by Dr. Cathy Hannabach, our team of academic editors and indexers specializes in fields that challenge convention and build more just, inclusive futures.

We understand what it takes to craft writing that’s both intellectually rigorous and readable—the kind that moves through peer review smoothly and resonates with readers beyond it.

You bring the insight, creativity, and intellectual courage, we provide the editorial expertise and structure that make your scholarship clear, accessible, and compelling.

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What you can expect

When you collaborate with Ideas on Fire, you get more than technical support or a single set of eyes on the project.

You gain a full publishing team that understands your scholarship, anticipates the needs of your presses, and manages the details so your publishing journey is less stressful and more rewarding.

Clarity and confidence

Your arguments, structure, and prose strengthened without losing your voice.

Professional polish

A manuscript ready for reviewers, acquisition editors, and production.

Supportive partnership

Clear timelines, prompt communication, and editors and indexers who really get your fields.

Accessibility and reach

We help make your ideas legible across disciplines and accessible to the audiences who most need them, expanding your impact within and beyond academia.

Recent projects

Cover of Trans Pleasure, with the title in neon lights
Cover of Sanctuary Making, with immigrant families supporting each other while ICE officers lead a family member toward a police car
Cover of A Black Queer History of the United States, with bold yellow and black writing on a pink background
Cover of Good Sediment, with an artistic collage of people, water birds, trees, plants, and water in a marshland.
Cover of Postconflict Utopias with Black women sitting in boats on a river and a woman rising from the water
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What it's like to work with us

"Working with Ideas on Fire was an oasis, an opportunity to receive affirming, consistent, and constructive academic editing feedback on my writing. I have more confidence with my capacity as a writer and thinker from their edits."

Ronak Kapadia, author of Insurgent Aesthetics: Security and the Queer Life of the Forever War

"Ideas on Fire has been a vital partner in launching and sustaining Feminist Anthropology. The thoughtfulness and deep intent that go into the copyediting process are reflected in the content expertise of the team and the clear communication with our editorial team and authors. Working with IoF gives us confidence in the quality of our journal."

Sameena Mulla, co-editor of Feminist Anthropology

"I am so grateful to Ideas on Fire for their expertise, professionalism, and prompt assistance. They get right to the heart of a chapter’s workings; it’s like a superpower." 

Lauryl Tucker, author of Unexpected Pleasures: Parody, Queerness, and Genre in 20th-Century British Fiction

“I recommend Ideas on Fire’s services to all of my colleagues who do critical cultural work. Working with IoF gives me comfort knowing my work won’t be misunderstood because of a lack of understanding of my intersectional fields.”

Kishonna L. Gray, author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming

"IoF helped me strengthen and clarify my argument and also gave me confidence with positive feedback on the things I did well. My book was accepted by Duke University Press thanks to Ideas on Fire’s editing."

Lex Lancaster, author of Dragging Away: Queer Abstraction in Contemporary Art

"Working with Ideas on Fire was an incredible experience. I have new expectations for copyeditors and indexers now, thanks to their work. I recommend IoF to all the academics and writers I know."

Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies

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Your work can change the world

It deserves an awesome interdisciplinary team of editors and indexers supporting you every step of the way. 

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